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HANSARDPublic Spending: InheritanceI welcome you to your place, Madam Deputy Speaker. My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care will meet with people affected. We were promised a new…29 Jul 2024HANSARDPublic Spending: InheritanceMy hon. Friend is welcome on the Government Benches with his expertise. Everything in our manifesto was fully costed and fully funded, including 40,000 additional NHS appointments…29 Jul 2024HANSARDPublic Spending: InheritanceThe pandemic is no excuse for making unfunded spending commitments, which is precisely what the previous Government did. The right hon. Gentleman mentioned the pandemic, during…29 Jul 2024HANSARDPublic Spending: InheritanceI too saw the numbers today that show that Britian is out of the top 10 manufacturing countries, which is shameful given our history at the heart of the industrial revolution. I…29 Jul 2024HANSARDPublic Spending: InheritanceI thank the hon. Gentleman for that question. I have just set out the non-dom tax loophole closures, and my hon. Friend the Exchequer Secretary has published a written ministerial…29 Jul 2024HANSARDPublic Spending: InheritanceFar be it from me to give advice to Tory leadership contestants, but if I were taking part in this contest, I would want to distance myself as much as possible from the Government…29 Jul 2024HANSARDPublic Spending: InheritanceWe have already created a national wealth fund, which will leverage in billions of pounds of private sector investment, including in carbon capture and storage, as well as green…29 Jul 2024HANSARDPublic Spending: InheritanceI thank my hon. Friend for that question. It is to the previous Government’s huge shame that they spent billions of pounds of taxpayers’ money on VIP-lane contracts, and on PPE…29 Jul 2024HANSARDPublic Spending: InheritanceI do not believe that any member of the previous Cabinet could not have been aware of the scale of this cover-up and the scale of the overspending. They should hang their heads in…29 Jul 2024HANSARDPublic Spending: InheritanceThe hon. Gentleman should blame the previous Government for not funding the commitments that they made. My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care will…29 Jul 2024HANSARDPublic Spending: InheritanceThe OBR has just published a letter, as my hon. Friend said, which states: “We were made aware of the extent of these pressures at a meeting with the Treasury last week”, and goes…29 Jul 2024HANSARDPublic Spending: InheritanceI fully understand the hon. Gentleman’s concerns. I know that during the election campaign, like so many Members across the House, he will have campaigned in good faith, believing…29 Jul 2024HANSARDPublic Spending: InheritanceWe have had to make difficult decisions today to cancel road and rail infrastructure projects. These are not decisions we wanted to make, but if the money is not there, we cannot…29 Jul 2024HANSARDPublic Spending: InheritanceFirst, it is an extraordinary omission that the previous Government did not set affordability criteria for the independent pay review bodies, which meant that they were able to…29 Jul 2024HANSARDPublic Spending: InheritanceI know, particularly around flood defences, that there are many great needs in the York constituency that my hon. Friend represents. These decisions will all be made at the time…29 Jul 2024HANSARDPublic Spending: InheritanceI can see, on behalf of the hon. Gentleman’s constituents, the frustration and anger that he feels at the previous Government letting his constituents down so badly by not funding…29 Jul 2024HANSARDPublic Spending: InheritanceI thank my hon. Friend for that question and welcome him to his place in this House—he speaks powerfully, based on his previous experience. I will fix the mess that we have…29 Jul 2024HANSARDPublic Spending: InheritanceIt was the previous Government who set the mandate for the pay review bodies. It is extraordinary that they did not include in that remit a measure of affordability, but they did…29 Jul 2024HANSARDPublic Spending: InheritanceThe problem that the previous Government got into was that every time they wanted to make a commitment, they said it would be paid for from the reserve. By the time I came into…29 Jul 2024HANSARDPublic Spending: InheritanceThere is nothing pro-growth about making unfunded spending commitments. There is nothing pro-growth about a lack of respect for taxpayers’ money. We will continue to provide the…29 Jul 2024